The Anglo-Saxon Culture And Feelings

One debate that keeps going on is about the merits and flaws of the Anglo-Saxon culture. It is a debate that is very much worth having.

Most cultures have things right with them and things wrong with them. In the Anglo-Saxon culture, the biggest enduring problem appears to be emotional violence. They take a low view of feelings; so then they do bad things with feelings and bad things to people who are feeling-oriented. This will always alienate the feeling-oriented people, especially the artists; and I do not see that changing for as long as this remains to be the case.

Now there are many things that are right with the Anglo-Saxon culture. The stress on will, work, intelligence, ethics and character is a rightful one, and it has lead to many impressive accomplishments. However if they continue to denigrate things such as feelings, that will always result in the artistic type rebelling against them. This is in no way accidental. This is a direct consequence of these traits.

In Russian and Jewish cultures, there are also stresses on things such as work and intelligence. However these cultures do not militate against feelings. For this reason the artistic types in the West often look to Russia for guidance. Sometimes it works for the better, as when they bring into the West the great artistic and literary legacy of Russia. There are other times when, as when they bring into the West Russia's stupid ideas on politics, it works for the worse.

A culture that militates against feelings will therefore always alienate feeling-oriented people. And it is for this reason that the artistic types in the Anglo-Saxon culture tend to become rebels, whereas say in Greece or in France many are not. The correct solution to that is to change this state of affairs so that feelings are not being denigrated. This being done, the feeling-oriented people will no longer rebel against the Anglo-Saxon culture. And instead of becoming alienated, these people will become patriots and contributors using what they have to offer to improve the countries in which they live.